Scottish History: Recent submissions
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Scottish colonization before Darien : opportunities and opposition in the union of the crowns
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisThis thesis aims to provide a detailed account of Scottish colonisation efforts in the seventeenth century. In the first place, it seeks to provide an update to the only book-length study of the topic, George Pratt Insh’s ... -
Robert Burns in Scottish politics (1914-2014)
(University of St Andrews, 2020-07-30) - ThesisThe present thesis considers the political legacy of Robert Burns in twentieth and twenty-first century Scotland, explaining how iconoclastic, left-wing, and nationalist interpretations of the poet have grown in prominence ... -
'An ugly epoch' : male sexual violence in interwar Scotland, 1918-1930
(University of St Andrews, 2020-12-02) - ThesisThis thesis examines social and judicial attitudes towards sexual violence in Scotland between November 1918 and December 1930. Based on a survey of over 700 sexual violence cases prosecuted at the High Court of Justiciary, ... -
The Episcopal Church of Scotland, 1660-1685
(University of St Andrews, 2019-06-27) - ThesisThe restoration of episcopacy in the Church of Scotland in 1661 was a deeply divisive event, sparking the resignation of around a quarter of the clergy and initiating a large dissenting movement of presbyterians. This ...